Love is really dope when you find your person.
It’s been a pleasure to share the brainrot with you all in 2023, here’s to another year of not being able to move on from the same show we’ve been hyperfixating on for years 🥂
EMERGENCY
Maha’s @mahaibrahim13 daughter Joan is severely ill with dehydration. She has become very sick due to malnutrition, exposure to cold weather while living on the street, and unsanitary conditions due to the sabotage of Gaza’s waste management infrastructure by the IOF. She cannot keep any fluids in her, and has become lethargic.
Lethargy in dehydrated children is a highly concerning sign. Joan needs to get fluids in her very, very soon. There is a medical hydration solution (meaning a liquid solution) that can help replenish her fluids and nutrients, but it is expensive.
Hind is constantly tweeting about being overwhelmed and hopeless. Bisan is sharing videos of children dying--literally someone trying to give a child chest compressions before giving up, the camera lingering on the child's limp, dead body. Today, Motaz posted video of his bombed out neighborhood--footage of a hand that does not end in an arm but ends in frayed and tattered meat. His neighborhood lost 45 people, his cousin also died.
His last tweet, 16 minutes ago, is him in the rain, the caption begs for the genocide to stop. "Please god, stop this."
Things have been dire and are getting more bleak. Using these people as inspiration porn--repeated lines of "Palestinians haven't lost hope, so we shouldn't other"--grows useless as it is clear it is very hard for them to manage hope. Hind has flat out admitted to being overwhelmed and losing feeling. The dead child, whose face was drenched in blood, cannot hope. It is not their fault, it isn't a matter of them not trying enough. It is a sign of Israel's cruelty.
How bad it is gotten--how much worse it is getting as Israel faces little resistance from the international community, as lack of food and medical care and sanitation spreads disease, how much the rain and cold sucks out the capacity to do anything other than survive and stress--means we should push harder. Fueled by righteous fury at injustice and needless suffering, not human beings turned into mascots, we must push and pull things harder until the system of suffering breaks.
I don't even know what that means. Every call to action feels so pathetically weak in the wake of all of this. But we must figure out what pushing harder means and fast.
Every day spent doing nothing or the bare minimum is more lives lost, more hope lost.
These days have been completely surreal, there are peaceful demonstrations throughout the country, last night they came out everywhere too, the monuments made by this dictatorship they are destroying them, they are throwing them away in all the states, the streets with Maduro's face are being burned, people are not stopping from going out into the streets.
You have no idea how significant this is for us, it has been almost 30 years of this dictatorship, years during which they established "heroes of the country" that they were only people from his party, they made statues of them as if they were solemn figures, this is BIG.
thinking abt when someone rests their head on your shoulder and suddenly you're barely breathing because you don't want to disrupt their comfort by moving. will never get over how there can be so much love held in silent gestures.
NSFW HELLIAM 🙏
for y'all asking NSFW (respectful) willry art 😳
he's just kissing his neck~
How are we feeling?
I can’t stop thinking about my favorite ships, which are all ambiguously gay old men.
I ship Freemance because Alyx Vance is a well written interesting character and her affection for Gordon feels believable because SHE is believable as a person. You have to lay that foundation first. They have to be believable people for them to believably care about someone.
I can feel her affection for Gordon because I can feel her humanity as a person. She's not just some person with 7 whole lines of dialogue in the whole game and disappears after episode 1.